Not Suprisingly, Sketchy Details Have Surfaced About The Missing Kid Found Alive In His Father’s Basement

Earlier this morning, we reported that a man had been informed live on air by Nancy Grace that his son — who had been missing for 11 days — had been found alive in his basement, despite searches by the Detroit police, the FBI, Michigan police, bloodhounds, and cadaver dogs which had not turned anything up. Nancy Grace being Nancy Grace — A SENSATIONALIST MONSTER — revealed to the father that his son had been found in the basement, but didn’t immediately reveal that he was alive. It was during that moment in which the man — Charlie Bothuell — looked stunned, and it’s hard to say if he was stunned to learn that his son had been found or that he’d been found alive.

We have an update.

It’s a weird story anyway you look at it. How did the authorities miss seeing the kid hiding in the basement? Why was he being concealed by a make-shift structure? Why did he have food with him? Why was he relieved to see the police when he was found? Why did he only turn up after police turned the child into a potential homicide investigation?

We still don’t know the answers to that, but some details that have been released might allow us to make some assumptions. For instance, we now know that the child had not in fact been in the basement the entire time. According to Detroit police, he had been in a separate location. In fact, the basement area had clearly been staged, and the 12 year old had only been there a short while. However, the kid was wearing the same clothes he had on when he went missing. His mental condition is currently good, though he is still in the hospital being monitored.

Here’s the sketchy details: A PVC pipe found in another location is part of the investigation. Blood was found on the child’s clothing, in the house, and in the father’s trunk. Bothuell also broke into tears when the homicide possibility was mentioned to him again (at the 1:50 mark).

I’m not a fan of Piers Morgan but I will give him credit for his noble attempt to be the only adamantly and extremely vocal anti-gun person on national television in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

If the dad is involved in this kid’s ordeal, then Nancy Grace isn’t a monster in this situation… I’d say he deserves this and far worse. If he’s innocent and there was no foul play on his end, then yeah… she’s a twunt.

No, I think she’s still a monster no matter how this turns out. She has no way of knowing whether he had anything to do with this or not, so she should have proceeded with kid gloves, however because she has all the tact of a syphilitic cunt, she acted as she did.

While that might be true MulliganNY , Nancy has never been and still isn’t the kind of person to find out what the truth IS before whipping out the hammer and nails and self-righteously crucifying whomever she unilaterally delegates as the villian.

Until this case is closed, the father and all family, anyone close to the boy will be considered a suspect until cleared. As this story is unfolding, it isn’t looking too good for the father. People are acting like Nancy Grace put the kid in the basement herself. lol Nobody is commenting on the actual case. “They found blood in the father’s trunk? Yup, Nancy Grace is a douche.”

No. She’s still a monster. She did what she did with no proof of the father’s involvement or voicing an opinion as such. She did it to what to all eyes appeared to be a grieving father and purposely gave him the news to make him think, even for a moment, that his son was found dead and not alive.

@ewaj With the father still not being able to see his son, it shows the police haven’t cleared him as a suspect yet. The first 48 hours are crucial in any kidnapping, this kid was gone for 11 days. Of course the police will suspect homicide and family members will be the main target of the investigation. Add in the wife refusing to take a lie detector test, blood being found, and Nancy Grace is the least of this families worries right now. All I saw in the video was she said the son was found and the father visibly reacted but it’s not as if she didn’t drag out the word ‘alive’ for another 20 minutes. The police are no doubt treating this family as suspects, and they do that without ‘proof’, are they wrong for doing so?

So there was blood in the father’s trunk, blood on the kid’s clothes, but was the kid injured? So if there’s blood, and the kid is unharmed (relatively), who do we think was murdered? Was the father hiding the kid because the kid saw him do something? Am I mouth breathing clueless dullard?

Weird story. I’m tempted to actually watch that Nancy Grace clip to see if I can read the guy’s face and guess whether he’s involved. But since I’m not gonna do that, my hypothesis will be that some real-life Lorne Malvo is responsible.